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I turned a friend onto FIP at the weekend and got a rave email back this morning: it's his new working-at-home background sound.

Then I fired up ET at lunch time and found this thread.  Another case of ET synchronicity :-)  

Thanks for the background and the links: I was only aware of FIP from the 'Internet Radio' list on my SqueezeBox.

My other favourite 'net radio is the 'Groove Salad' channel at http://somafm.com/ where the only voice appears to be from 'The AI with the beat' speaking via a Festival speech synthesiser.

by cbatjesmond on Tue Oct 30th, 2007 at 03:11:40 PM EST
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Another FIP fan!  I thought I was going to be letting everyone know about this...but you all knew!

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Tue Oct 30th, 2007 at 04:21:56 PM EST
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But I theenk we talk about this before... I was a FIP listener 35 years ago... It's been around that long. And was exactly the same style then, and very good, very popular in Paris.

Money changes hands? A bit. I'm about to contribute my annual French public broadcasting license fee, €116. Glad you can get a piece of it in Brighton!

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Oct 30th, 2007 at 04:47:03 PM EST
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Heh....I'll swap you some BBC, how about that?  (£135.50.  I have a friend who thinks the BBC should drop all television and just concentrate on radio--hey, how about I swap you one of those Melvyn Bragg programmes for starters ;)

Here you go:

BBC - Radio 4 In Our Time - Science Archive

James Clerk Maxwell - great 19th century physicist

And yeah, I may have mentioned FIP a couple of time previous.  Cough cough! %>})

I still, though, find it hard to express my pleasure at finding FIP on my radio...after it seemed it had gone.

(It seems the FIP internet site shuts down at 11 pm, while my radio just keeps on going...the later it gets the stranger the selections...)

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Tue Oct 30th, 2007 at 05:12:21 PM EST
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Great, just at the time when I'd want to listen to it, it shuts down for me.

Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.
by ceebs (bunchofwankers (at) gmail (dot) com) on Tue Oct 30th, 2007 at 10:22:32 PM EST
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